When my wife and I vacationed in Alaska two years ago, we also viewed Mount Denali from the air, during our flight from Fairbanks into Canada and Whitehorse! On the day we took that spectacular journey, Denali had a layer of clouds obscuring the lower two thirds of its height, its magnificent peak totally visible in the sunlight! Your video captures the wide expanse of awesome beauty that we missed on our flight!!! Thank You so much for the return trip to that incredible landscape!!!
JC Baily my old girlfriend and I visited anchorage in 97.she was a flight attendant and had been to anchorage previously.we went to a restaurant that served nothing but chicken wings.there were 100s of plastic Jesus's everywhere.are you familiar with this?the nuclear wings were free if you could eat a whole plate.
I lived in Anchorage 40 years ago. Lots of wonderful memories. To see Denali and Mt Foraker makes my heart smile. So beautiful! And then Sleeping Lady across Cook Inlet. 😊😊
... and purely magical when you see it from ground level... especially the wild part of it, like Denali National Park and the White Pass / Yukon Railroad!
At 13:55 point the largest glacier you can see coming down off Denali is the Ruth glacier George, I have flown up that with pilots from Talkeetna on a clear day like this and landed by ski plane 5300 ft up. You talk about a site, words can’t begin to describe it! You who have done it know what I mean! Howabout this fact, if you took the ice out of the gorge it is deeper then the Grand Canyon, plus Denali has a greater rise from then Everest. Think about that😉plus it is the coldest mtn on earth!
@@davidquery3176 prior to 2015, that was its “official” name. In August 2015, the name was changed to Denali in all official references. So yes, the name now is Denali.
@@troyottosen8722, yep. Even in all that beautiful snowcapped mountain country in western Canada such as Banff nation park, Jasper national park, and Northern Rocky mountains provincial park, they look like very scenic beautiful country to go hiking in, all that space and fresh open air also, except that throughout those areas there are bears, bears, and more bears. Grizzly bears.
Alvex Ok , those areas aren’t even close to the scale of Denali, and they donyhave anywhere near the amount of pure wilderness as we have in Alaska, simple!😉
@@troyottosen8722, those mountains are beautiful, but I agree they're not close to as high as Denali and it's surrounding mountains, which are definitely beautiful and scenic and there are glaciers. And you're right, Alaska has even more wilderness way away from civilization than those other places. But I thought that those areas Banff and Jasper still are grizzly bear country, aren't they?
Alvex Ok , there are some grizzlies in jasper and banff yet not even close to Alaska numbers. We have both brown and grizzlies, technically the same species yet our browns are on the southern coast of Alaska feeding mainly on salmon so they get way bigger then grizzlies Wichita are inland. There are by far more brown and grizzlies in Alaska then the world”combined “, we have plenty of wild unpopulated areas up here which they need, plus we have managed our bears well😉
aps_ak thanks.i spent a few weeks in Alaska in 97.i love every bit of it.i like the mentality of the people.its like you are free to do what ever persuits you endeavor .i I am free to do the same.as long as we understand this everything will be ok.
When my wife and I vacationed in Alaska two years ago, we also viewed Mount Denali from the air, during our flight from Fairbanks into Canada and Whitehorse! On the day we took that spectacular journey, Denali had a layer of clouds obscuring the lower two thirds of its height, its magnificent peak totally visible in the sunlight! Your video captures the wide expanse of awesome beauty that we missed on our flight!!! Thank You so much for the return trip to that incredible landscape!!!
Having lived in Anchorage for almost 20 years this video brought back a lot of fond memories....thanks!
Thanks - glad to help bring back good memories.
JC Baily my old girlfriend and I visited anchorage in 97.she was a flight attendant and had been to anchorage previously.we went to a restaurant that served nothing but chicken wings.there were 100s of plastic Jesus's everywhere.are you familiar with this?the nuclear wings were free if you could eat a whole plate.
I lived in Anchorage 40 years ago. Lots of wonderful memories. To see Denali and Mt Foraker makes my heart smile. So beautiful! And then Sleeping Lady across Cook Inlet. 😊😊
Alaska is mesmerizing when you see it from the air
... and purely magical when you see it from ground level... especially the wild part of it, like Denali National Park and the White Pass / Yukon Railroad!
@@Titan52berg, yes, it's beautiful. That was Denali national park that they were flying over between apart 13:00 - 14:00, wasn't it?
really like the engine start up audio
The Great One
At 13:55 point the largest glacier you can see coming down off Denali is the Ruth glacier George, I have flown up that with pilots from Talkeetna on a clear day like this and landed by ski plane 5300 ft up. You talk about a site, words can’t begin to describe it! You who have done it know what I mean! Howabout this fact, if you took the ice out of the gorge it is deeper then the Grand Canyon, plus Denali has a greater rise from then Everest. Think about that😉plus it is the coldest mtn on earth!
18:15 - is that Susitna, and in the background the snowcapped mountain range which includes Mt. Talachulnitna and Jill point?
Alvex Ok that is Susitna, and the Alaska Range in the background.
Isn't it called Mt Mckinely?
The formal name has been “Denali” for some time now.
@@aps_ak7088 But the nation's highest mountain in the northern hemisphere is Mt McKinley 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
@@davidquery3176 prior to 2015, that was its “official” name. In August 2015, the name was changed to Denali in all official references. So yes, the name now is Denali.
Alot of that alpine terrain they were flying over was definitely grizzly bear country.
Albee, Most of Alaska is grizzly country.😉😂👍
@@troyottosen8722, yep. Even in all that beautiful snowcapped mountain country in western Canada such as Banff nation park, Jasper national park, and Northern Rocky mountains provincial park, they look like very scenic beautiful country to go hiking in, all that space and fresh open air also, except that throughout those areas there are bears, bears, and more bears. Grizzly bears.
Alvex Ok , those areas aren’t even close to the scale of Denali, and they donyhave anywhere near the amount of pure wilderness as we have in Alaska, simple!😉
@@troyottosen8722, those mountains are beautiful, but I agree they're not close to as high as Denali and it's surrounding mountains, which are definitely beautiful and scenic and there are glaciers. And you're right, Alaska has even more wilderness way away from civilization than those other places. But I thought that those areas Banff and Jasper still are grizzly bear country, aren't they?
Alvex Ok , there are some grizzlies in jasper and banff yet not even close to Alaska numbers. We have both brown and grizzlies, technically the same species yet our browns are on the southern coast of Alaska feeding mainly on salmon so they get way bigger then grizzlies Wichita are inland. There are by far more brown and grizzlies in Alaska then the world”combined “, we have plenty of wild unpopulated areas up here which they need, plus we have managed our bears well😉
what time of the year?
This was the second week of October.
aps_ak thanks.i spent a few weeks in Alaska in 97.i love every bit of it.i like the mentality of the people.its like you are free to do what ever persuits you endeavor .i I am free to do the same.as long as we understand this everything will be ok.
dash 8 down there would be more fun